Experimental music – non-profit digital label & live events

The perfect failure (?) (2011-2018)

THIS IS NOT A COMPILATION

(informations en français en bas de page)

Update / november 1st 2018:

Submissions are now closed. The collaborative aim of this project has kept failing since months : no submissions at all has been received since the last call in july 2018. It’s really time to stop. Thanks to all past contributors!

The project “the perfect failure” will come to an end at the end of 2018.Ideally, I didn’t want to give any deadline. But since a long time, I receive very few contributions (only 3 in 2018 so far). That’s one of the many reasons I feel it’s time to stop. There are also many reasons that are related to the nature of the project itself and the way I deal with its self-contradictory definition(s).The 6th and last volume is almost finished (since a long time) and will be published early 2019. You can still send new submissions until october 31. Any material received after this date will be ignored. Again, thanks a lot to all contributors!

short version

listen contribute :write to tgbts0@gmail.comor use submission form at bottom of the page

Long version:

Eg0cide is looking for contributors for a collective project based on the theme of failure. If you are a genius who plays and records only great music, you can stop reading right now (and please send us one of your still unpublished masterpiece for an individual release instead of something for this project. But you have to know that the label has recently (summer 2016) stopped publishing new works except volumes of the perfect failure. This might be temporary. Or permanent. Or both. Or something in-between)

The rules are simple : send us the sound(s) you consider being the worst (boring / badly recorded / unbearable / laughable…the criteria are totally subjective and entirely up to you) you’ve ever created/recorded and that you haven’t still destroyed – for any (preferably bad) reason(s). We won’t make a compilation of these tracks, but a single piece mixing the submitted sounds.
The paradoxical goal of this project is to achieve “something” out of this sum of failures – the “perfect” failure? But if we reach this goal, wouldn’t it be a failure? And if we fail, wouldn’t it be a success?
Pictures and texts (please in english or french language only) are also welcome, as they could be used in the making of a virtual cover / presentation booklet.

Technical details

– Sounds : they can be already mixed pieces or single tracks of any genre and from any source (instrumental music, voice recordings, field recordings, etc…)– Length : free– Number of files : free– File format : free – the only restriction is that our computer is able to open the file. . .– Submissions : If your file is less than 10 MB big you can send it directly by mail to tgbts0@gmail.com. Otherwise please upload it to free filehosts like mediafire.com, wetransfer.com, sendspace.com, soundcloud…You can also use our submission form below– Use of your files : We can’t say in advance if we will use your file(s) or not, and if we do use them, we reserve ourselves the right to edit them, but we plan not to add excessive effects (like loads of reverb or time-stretching…), although we could change our mind during the mixing process…Pictures / texts will be used with similar methods : mostly cut & paste.– Deadline : There is no deadline – the project will come to an end when we consider the mix is finished.– Credits : Due to the specific nature of the project, it won’t have a playlist in the usual “author – title” form. The list of contributors will simply be published with the finished piece. Thus, your files don’t need a title, just tell us the name by which you wish to be credited. You can also contribute anonymously, if so please don’t forget to mention it when you send your contribution(s).– License : The release will be dedicated to the public domain, published on eg0cide, available for free download on archive.org

Thanks in advance for your contributions
Please forward the info to all your friends (or ennemies)

So far, 5 volumes have been published, but the project remains open. Will you help us to reach the worst we are hoping for?